A Wisdom Archive on Crestone Colorado

Crestone is a town located in Saguache County in Southwestern Colorado. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 73. It is a small village at the foot of the western slope of the Sangre de Cristo Range, in the northern part of the San Luis Valley. Crestone was a small mining town, but little paying ore was discovered. In the 1970s a large land development, the Baca Grande, was established to the ... Including:

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Crestone is located near the 38th parallel, in the San Luis Valley in south central Colorado. It is platted on a quarter section of land (160 acres; 0.6 km²). A stream, North Crestone Creek runs through it and much of the land near the creek, the main part of town, is well watered in normal times, but during a prolonged drought the creek may dry up and underground water levels may fall. In more technical terms, Crestone is located at 37°59'45" North, 105°41'59" West (37.99579 ...

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A conglomerate is a rock consisting of other stones that have been cemented together. Conglomerates are sedimentary rocks consisting of rounded fragements and are thus differentiated from breccias, which consist of angular clasts. Both conglomerates and breccias are characterized by clasts larger than sand (>2 mm). There are two varieties of conglomerate, defined by texture: paraconglomerates and orthoconglomerates. Paraconglomerates consist of a matrix supported rock that containing at least 15% sand sized or smaller grai ...

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Richard Baker is an American Zen Buddhist priest in the Soto tradition. He is the principal dharma heir of Shunryu Suzuki, and was instrumental in the growth of San Francisco Zen Center. Baker was ordained a priest in 1965, which made him one of the first American-born Caucasian Buddhist clerics. He travelled to Japan and studied at the Soto Sect training temple of Eiheiji. Baker received dharma transmission from Shunryu Suzuki in 1970, shortly prior to Suzuki's death. This act made Bake ... Including:

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The Harmonic Convergence was a loosely-organized new age spiritual event that occurred on 1987, August 17th, when groups of people gathered in various sacred sites and "mystical" places all over the world to usher in a new era, a date based primarily on the Maya calendar, but also on interpretations of European and Asian astrology. The Harmonic Convergence was supposed to be a global awakening to love and unity through divine transformation. It was initiated in 1987 by Jose Arguelles. According to his interpretation of Mayan co ...

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Ken Salazar (D) Colorado is a western state in the central part of the country. Colorado is best known as the home of the highest peaks of the Rocky Mountains, which dominate the western half of the state; eastern Colorado is mostly High Plains (prairie) and sparsely populated. The state capital and largest city is Denver, Colorado; the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area contains over half of the state's population (2.5 million out of 4.3 million). The state was named after the Spanish word "Colorado" which means "reddish colored" that presumably refers to the red sandstone formations in the are ... Including:

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The California Zephyr is a 2,438-mile (3924-km) passenger train route operated by Amtrak in the Midwestern and Southwestern United States. It runs from Chicago, Illinois in the east to Emeryville, California in the west, passing through the states of Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California. This route is one of the longest and most scenic routes run by Amtrak. Before Amtrak commenced operation, California Zephyr (the CZ, or "Silver Lady") was a passenger train operated jointly by th ... Including:

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A wind band, also called concert band, symphonic band, wind orchestra, or wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of woodwind, brass, percussion instruments. Its various repertoire include original wind compositions, arranged classical items, light music, and popular tunes. Though the instrumentation is similar, it is distinguished from the marching band in that its primary function is as a concert ensemble. The repertoire for a concert band may, however, contain marches. Concert ba ... Including:

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Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. Formerly, people used local solar time, originally apparent and then mean solar time. Their difference is the equation of time. Mean solar time is the average over the course of a year of apparent solar time (sundial time). With the expansion of the railways and as telecommunications improved this became increasingly awkward because clocks in a given town would differ from those in any other by an amount correspond ... Including:

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From east to west, the communities with regular station stops on this train included: Chicago, Illinois Galesburg, Illinois Burlington, Iowa Ottumwa, Iowa Osceola, Iowa Creston, Iowa Omaha, Nebraska Lincoln, Nebraska Hastings, Nebraska McCook, Nebraska Denver, Colorado (where the train was handed off from the CB&Q to the DRGW) Glenwood Springs, Colorado Grand Junction, Colorado Helper, Utah Provo, Uta ...

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In 1972, with funding from Laurence Rockefeller, Thompson founded the Lindisfarne Association, which functioned variously as a sponsor of events and lectures, and as a think tank and retreat. Lindisfarne functioned through the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City for a number of years. Today the Lindisfarne Fellows House and the Lindisfarne Chapel are located in the Crestone Mountain Zen Center in Colorado. According to the Lindisfarne Association website, Lindisfarne's fourfold goals are: The Planetization o ...

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